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...Larsen and his colleagues-both in Indochina and Washington -even an eyedropper's worth of information would have been greeted with heartfelt cheers during much of last week. Seeking to report a cover story on General Creighton Abrams and the biggest allied operation since the thrust into Cambodia, TIME'S correspondents ran up against a news blackout so complete that it seemed almost laughable. As Dewey Canyon II got under way, Saigon newsmen were briefed (in the truest sense of the word), told that all news was embargoed and then informed that even word of the embargo...
...treatment; recently Delta gave him a first-class seat though he held a coach ticket. When he stops at a bar, Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth National Bank personally expedites Calley's transactions. One day Calley presented his check...
...least one group at the School, led by professor Fletcher Watson, a research associate in the Center for Studies in Education and Development, will still focus on curricular reform in the public schools, subject by subject. But the main thrust will now be in researching children's development, "individually and within society." Sizer said, and "how to intervene humanely"in their growth. Administrative posts and other positions of "leverage" in public education will increasingly be the ones the School hopes to fill...
Although the White House refused to comment on the invasion, the Associated Press reported that President Nixon is believed to have given the final order on the thrust...
...communique issued in Washington and Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu said the thrust was aimed at cutting the Ho Chi Minh Trail and North Vietnam's supply and infiltration network in the Laotian panhandle...